We love opportunities for people to get connected with Nature … it helps us put our lives in a proper context. Don’t you love it that we live in an area where waterways & reserves have their own guardians! This local one is coming up soon, all free.

We’re excited! Helena College have very generously offered us the use of their Darlington Campus, Helena House Hall as a workshop venue for some regular Boomerang Bag workshops. First Tuesday of the month.

We need lots of these alternative bags to help our community transition to the plastic-free shopping habit of bringing their own bags. Come and join in some creative fun (with a social purpose). There are plenty of non-sewing jobs, but these things are always needed:

scissors

sewing machine

overlocker

material (to donate)

cotton

These community-created Boomerang Bags are placed at participating local shops and are available free to Borrow & Bring Back. They encourage a habit of re-use amongst local shoppers and are part of a transitional strategy to encourage the use of natural alternatives AND Ban Single-use Plastic Bags in our Shire (and the world)!

BREAKING NEWS!!
We’re taking the WA Local Govt. advice to heart and have just started circulating a PETITION TO BAN SINGLE USE PLASTIC SHOPPING BAGS in The Shire of Mundaring. The issue will be brought to a Council meeting in mid-August so please sign to show our Councillors that there is widespread support for this within the Shire. Find them currently at Kinfolk Cafe & Leaf & Bean Cafe opp. Woollies. If you want a petition for your business or can help collecting signatures in your area, just message us here at transition@mt.org.au

Boomerang Bag making with just a few days notice, a rainy day and yet … we had a hugely productive day. Especially thanks to the younger generation “doin’ time with Nan”. That’s Community Service time, an idea we’re keen to see replicated all over the Shire. Will these Facebook pics do as proof for Helena College, or do we need to sign your logs. Bonus …. there were yummy cookies as well! What are you waiting for? Organise a sewing group soon. We can help you. Contact transition@mt.org.au

Outcome of the Shire Council Meeting motion from Tues 13 Jun (to Ban Single Use Plastic Bags). The motion, as it was presented by Cr. Trish Cook at last night’s meeting was not passed, but is also NOT OVER! A new motion was formulated and the serious conversation has now begun. So start talking about it with your family, your friends, in your groups & especially important: with local businesses in the Shire.
Here is the amended motion that was made … see more

Here’s your chance to register your concerns about single use plastic bags. Councillor Trish Cook will be presenting a motion (see below) to the next Council Meeting on TUES 13 JUNE. If you come at 6.30pm you can make a short 3min deputation (or listen to ours) She needs our support!! Send a nice, short email to the President (and your local representative too if you wish) saying you support the motion. You can find all your elected members email addresses HERE .

Don’t forget to let the President and your elected member know you support this motion. Cr. Cook needs help with this!

Thanks to our wonderful MiT volunteer apple pickers, a large proportion of the 700kg we sourced for our Community Apple Cider Making Day were windfalls. Saved from the waste pile, but perfectly fine for cider.
A whole bunch of Hills locals gathered at Jodie & Mark Hutton’s characterful home on the rural outskirts of Mundaring to be part of the hectic, hands-on buzz of transforming a huge trailer load of fruit into wonderful cider juice. Peter Lewis-Affleck did a fabulous job of explaining the history & the processes of cider making, and coordinated all the energetic activity. An impromtu (and incredibly generous) donation of organic pears by Rob of POP – Parkerville Organic Produce was wildly popular, adding to the great community spirit of the day. Still plenty of time for sharing stories, making new contacts, swapping food ideas, drinking good coffee and best of all: having hosts who just kept the woodfired pizzas coming for hours! Legends.

A whole bunch of people from our Fruit Squad rocked up to Karin’s beautiful olive orchard in Stoneville to help pick 500kgs of olives! It definitely wasn’t all hard work though. The food breaks were pretty good .. there’ll be a queue if we ever get invited back here again
Haven’t heard about our Fruit Squad mob? Check it out here https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/fruit-squad-alerts-tickets-31627838717

These bags are taking off! We’re ready to help take it to the next level and help YOU initiate some bagmaking. We’re happy to help with volunteers and advice to get you started. Get your resources together. Get your kids helping during the holidays.
Can’t spare the time, but love to contribute? Consider a small donation.
Lots of ways to get involved.

Helena College

MiT are very appreciative of Helena College for offering their Helena House Hall at the Darlington Campus for our Boomerang Bag Making Workshops. A collaborative community event by MiT and the Wasteless Pantry team designed to eliminate a little more waste from our lives.

Huge thanks to Brewmart Brewing Supplies in Bayswater for encouraging a whole new generation of local Hills fermenters. Our Community Cider Making Day is made possible with their incredibly generous support. Click on the logo to see their vast range of supplies for fermenting, brewing & preserving.

Thanks Bendigo Bank

We are grateful for ongoing support by a great local who helps our community grow in very real, practical ways.
Mundaring Community Bank® Branch Bendigo Bank:

 is a franchise of Bendigo Bank
 is owned by local people
 gives 80% of its profits back to the Hills community

We both strive to build a stronger, more sustainable community.

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Buy a plant & support the new Chidlow Community Garden to get going. Fabulous, healthy, happy plants - natives & waterwise - will be available at the Chidlow Markets this Saturday or ring Emmanuelle 9572 3191Here's more info about the plants: "I am selling these plants to fundraise for the community garden. Those are, from left to right, pass the artichoke seedling and the money plant, over a background of wormwood): acacia celastrifolia (about 40 plants left), acacia pulchella (100), acacia extensa (40), calothamnus sanguineus (70), chorizema cordatum (20), hakea petiolaris (20), calothamnus hirsutus (30), and melaleuca incana (200)

They are $2 each, except for the melaleuca incana which are $1 each, and the garden plants such as wormwood, artichoke, money plants, whitania, lavanda, ecoetera... for which prices vary with sizes.

I am advertising them here because now is the season to plant them!!! the ground is wet at last, and the days are getting longer.

We will be selling them at the Chidlow market this saturday, however if you want some, let me know, and i will put the best looking ones aside. They are going on 2 years old, and are bigger than the ones you would buy at the nursery but for a lesser price.

Join us to share your excess garden produce, seeds, seedlings, cuttings, plants, gardening magazines etc.
Bring things to share, take what you can use.
No money, just sharing.
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